I don't understand how they get plausible deniablity with r/piracy if they kick out the existing mods and then run it themselves.
But maybe that's why they're leaving the subs restricted and unmodded. Can't be blamed for running the sub if you don't actually run anything i guess.
This appears to be a new thing, in the past flipping the status didn't invite any response from the admins.
what's an SRD story? sorry im OutOfTheLoop
Unfortunately they have a log. So they'll know exactly what's being done, when, and by who.
Not saying it's a bad idea, coz it isn't. Just saying be aware when you do this so you can prepare for what's coming.
PDS automatically looks for everything in your new, top, controversial, and hot. Hot seems to be limited to 200 i think??? so the max you could get in theory is 3200, but what I found is that many entries show up in multiple places, unfortunately.
I modified one of the bots (using API key) to do the same thing and got a few hundred more comments overwritten that way.
Outrageous!!! That's a joke.
That said I do wonder if it's a reddit intern who just hit the wrong button. Like, any reason they give will be a BS reason, but they could have given you a nondescript "violation of content policy". why deliberately pick such an untrue and inflamatory reason?
Their only saving grace is that they didn't make this message public. If the reasons for the bans were announced publicly, you might have a case for libel here!
What the.... ?!!!!!
Is spez offering rewards to reddit employees for the most subs they undark now or something????
The word seems to be that reddit is claiming that they don't have the ability to do this after your account is deleted. They need you to make the GDPR request for deletion first, and then only delete your account once all your content is deleted.
I'm pretty sure that this is not GDPR compliant (they'd have to invest the effort - at their own expense - to find all the now unlinked content that used to be part of your account) but if you haven't deleted your account yet, you might have less of an uphill battle in getting reddit to comply.
Good advice in general, but for anything older than this year, there's a big torrent floating out there. I suspect you'd be able to find your content no problem even if reddit goes belly up.
Not knocking this method, just letting folks know that if you do miss the window to do this, there might still be a fallback option for you. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the
I think this must be it. Desperately looking for new sources of revenue to get into profitability quickly - so they can meet their timeline on the IPO and make up for lost value in their recently cut valuation.
It depends on the what and how.
The first time they did something like that, they bought out Alien Blue.
Sellig would have been will to sell Apollo - he even brought it up in a call that he had with reddit. So reddit buys Apollo and the other top apps like RiF, rebrands them as official reddit apps, and includes more telemetry and ads. But the basic functionality that makes accessibility and moderation better remains.
Add the above into the mix and I think there's not be that much uproar at all. People would mostly be happy to continue using the mostly-their-apps as they had before. Other 3rd party apps perhaps do get phased out, but they'd just move on to some of the bigger ones. Certainly nowhere near enough outrage to blackout.
Welcome aboard and happy to have you!!!